The Kennedy Family is also known as the Kennedy Clan or Kennedy Dynasty. The Kennedy family is an influential Irish-American family from which emerged many businessmen and politicians and their most famous member of the U.S. President John F. Kennedy was.
The roots of the Kennedy family are in Ireland. The grandparents of John F. Kennedy move because of the "Great Hunger „early to America. The Kennedy family worked very hard and so she could gradually make a better life. Joseph P. Kennedy (father of John F.K.) was then 25 years with the youngest bank president in the U.S. He married Rose Fitzgerald. This was the daughter of the former Mayor of the City of Boston. Joseph P. Kennedy and his wife became 9 children, 4 boys and 5 girls. The first son was given the name of his father Joseph Jr., the second was given the name of his grandfather, namely John Fitzgerald Kennedy and the third son baptized parents Robert. The fourth son of this family is called Edward.
Today lives only one daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy, Jean Anne Kennedy. In the year 2011 became she from the President Barack Obama the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Especially the father of John F. Kennedy wanted from his family something is. „In this family we want a winner," he used to say. Since he was very ambitious, he was rarely at home. He was almost always busy with banking and stock exchange transactions. Because he later a film company in Hollywood teased, he was so heavily involved.
Various tragedies
1944: The eldest son, Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. dead.
1948: The second oldest daughter Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish died in a plane crash over France.
1956: Jackie Kennedy Stillborn.
1963: Patrick, the youngest child of Jacqueline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, dies two days after his birth.
22 November: John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas.
1964: The youngest brother Edward Kennedy in a plane crash nearly died.
1968: Robert Kennedy is assassinated in Los Angeles.
1973: Joe Kennedy, son of Robert Kennedy, caused a car accident.
1984: David A. Kennedy, son of Robert Kennedy dies from an overdose of drugs.
1997: Michael LeMoyne Kennedy, son of Robert Kennedy, died in a skiing accident.
1999: John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her sister Lauren Bessette die in a plane crash.
2012: 16 May, Mary Richardson Kennedy (1960-2012), ex-wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was found dead; suicide.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He is born 29 May 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts and he is dead 22 November 1963in Dallas Texas. He was is 35th President of the United States. During his tenure at the height of the Cold War were historical events such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the beginning of the American space program and the later Vietnam War and the civil rights movement of African-American population. He was a member of the Democratic Party. Because of his youth and his charisma he embodied for many the hope of a renewal of the United States. Kennedy was the first Catholic U.S. president.
Assassination of John F.Kennedy
On 22 November 1963 John F. Kennedy was assassinated at a campaign trip to Dallas, Texas by two rifle shots during aride in an open car through the downtown Dallas. Almost one and a half hours after the attack, an alleged suspect named Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested. Two days later Oswald was to be transferred to the state prison of Dallas. Here, Oswald was shot and killed by nightclub owner Jack Ruby in the basement of the police building, before it could come to an accusation or a trial.
The Kennedy Family is also known as the Kennedy Clan or Kennedy Dynasty. The Kennedy family is an influential Irish-American family from which emerged many businessmen and politicians and their most famous member of the U.S. President John F. Kennedy was.
The roots of the Kennedy family are in Ireland. The grandparents of John F. Kennedy move because of the "Great Hunger „early to America. The Kennedy family worked very hard and so she could gradually make a better life. Joseph P. Kennedy (father of John F.K.) was then 25 years with the youngest bank president in the U.S. He married Rose Fitzgerald. This was the daughter of the former Mayor of the City of Boston. Joseph P. Kennedy and his wife became 9 children, 4 boys and 5 girls. The first son was given the name of his father Joseph Jr., the second was given the name of his grandfather, namely John Fitzgerald Kennedy and the third son baptized parents Robert. The fourth son of this family is called Edward.
Today lives only one daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy, Jean Anne Kennedy. In the year 2011 became she from the President Barack Obama the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Especially the father of John F. Kennedy wanted from his family something is. „In this family we want a winner," he used to say. Since he was very ambitious, he was rarely at home. He was almost always busy with banking and stock exchange transactions. Because he later a film company in Hollywood teased, he was so heavily involved.
Various tragedies
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He is born 29 May 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts and he is dead 22 November 1963in Dallas Texas. He was is 35th President of the United States. During his tenure at the height of the Cold War were historical events such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the beginning of the American space program and the later Vietnam War and the civil rights movement of African-American population. He was a member of the Democratic Party. Because of his youth and his charisma he embodied for many the hope of a renewal of the United States. Kennedy was the first Catholic U.S. president.
Assassination of John F.Kennedy
On 22 November 1963 John F. Kennedy was assassinated at a campaign trip to Dallas, Texas by two rifle shots during aride in an open car through the downtown Dallas. Almost one and a half hours after the attack, an alleged suspect named Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested. Two days later Oswald was to be transferred to the state prison of Dallas. Here, Oswald was shot and killed by nightclub owner Jack Ruby in the basement of the police building, before it could come to an accusation or a trial.